Cultures of Thinking

How have our communities played a role in 250 years of the American experiment?

Written By: Àngels Natal, WISSIT Faculty Member and Spanish Teacher at Oakton, High School in Oakton, VA Check out additional documentation from this project in this website https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/JzApSIaMikBg8 In July […]

Good Ideas from Good Ideas

An exploration by the Playful Schools Network The Playful Schools Network, launched with the support of the LEGO Foundation in 2022 and relaunched in 2024 with the support of several […]

11/05/2024

Graph Take Aparts: An Exploration of Gun Violence in the DMV

Written by Emma Mangels, a current teacher at Cunningham Park Elementary in Fairfax County, Virginia and former teacher at Sacred Heart School, in Washington, DC. Emma has been a member […]

03/22/2024

The Ripple Effect of Administrators’ Learning

Facebook Twitter The Ripple Effect of Administrators’ Learning: When Administrators Learn, All Learn Or how a small in-house learning group might end up impacting hundreds of learners! This blog post […]

A large sheet of paper is hung on a window. On it is a large diagram of an avocado with Peel the Fruit notes written in each layer.

04/13/2023

My Learning Journey with “Peeling the Fruit”: Modeling Thinking Routines in Professional Development Settings

What is “Peeling the Fruit,” you might be asking? For those who don’t know, it’s a thinking routine, developed at Project Zero, in the Visible Thinking project. You’ll also see it referred to as “Peel the Fruit.”

student's "I am DC, can you hear me?" poem with a photo of Black Lives Matter protesters.

02/07/2023

Unlocking Student Potential with a Global Competence Framework

What does an antiracist, student-centered curriculum look like? How can we ensure that our students, many of whom are English language learners, have access to meaningful, globally competent learning experiences? How do we cultivate opportunities for all students to show what they know and who they are in our classrooms, celebrating their learning differences?